Beijing Natives - Chinese Rap

almajors
 June 29, 2008, 03:08 PM posted in General Discussion

Just watched this video on youtube, and loved it! Could someone please summarize the lyrics? (the subtitles are there, but there is far too many for me to look up)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJl4jVFxuRI

Awesome video, and really reminds me of Beijing.

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purpleplum
 February 25, 2009, 06:04 PM

LanguageLog just had a post about the song, focusing on the er's 儿. Real Beijing eRs http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1179

A line by line translation is provided there. Don't know if you already had that on the youtube video since that one's been removed.

If any of you would like to anayze when ers would be said, please go there and give some knows some chinese input.